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Closing NATO’s deterrence gap

VILNIUS - On Sept. 23, just a week after NATO aircraft shot down a drone that had entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus, a Russian military helicopter flying out of Kaliningrad briefly breached Polish airspace. Neither intrusion was an isolated episode. A growing catalogue of security incidents shows that the Kremlin’s war of aggression against Ukraine is pressing ever more ominously on NATO’s borders.As reassuring as it was to see NATO scramble fighters to intercept and…

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